Longview Macclesfield Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
- 94 for now
- $45
- Drink by: 2021-2031
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Another very impressive red, this one more for the future than the moment. Colour is exuberant purples and vibrant crimsons. The wine is elegance personified. A fragrant nose with notes of dry herbs, aniseed, tobacco leaf, cedar and blackcurrants. Immaculate balance here, with focus and line, backed by underlying fresh acidity. Serious length, a Cabernet with structure and flavour. That said, and while it is very attractive now, it really deserves a further stint – five to ten years – in the cellar.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
